Literary usage of Fourths

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.The Constitution of the United States of America by United States (1920)"... was declared in a proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated September-25,
1804, to have been ratified by three-fourths of the States. r ..."

2.Studies in History and Jurisprudence by James Bryce Bryce (1901)"It was practically impossible to obtain a majority of three-fourths of the States
for an amendment dealing with slavery or with State sovereignty. ..."

3.Studies in History and Jurisprudence by James Bryce Bryce (1901)"means was one consisting of a two-thirds majority of each House and a three-fourths
majority of the States (acting either through Conventions or through ..."

4.The Constitution of the United States by United States, Robert Desty, Albert J. Brunner (1884)"... as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three
fourths of the several States, 01 by Conventions in three fourths thereof, ..."

5.United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)"The city, by its proper officers under its seal, certified that the city did
subscribe the stock "upon the written petition of three fourths of the legal ..."